She's Got To Say It

Summary: Before things really changed beyond her grasp she thought she might see if the situation was salvageable but first she was to loose face. At this point she'd better be throwing caution to the wind.

Chapter 1

Words
seemed to escape her or maybe came out the wrong way. At nineteen,
there is no clue she is not ready. Things are fine until Mark says,
“Trenda, I really want this to be something.

You
know?” Trenda didn’t know. Trenda is scared but he did
everything. Mark sees her with another guy; he holds on. He brings a
girl to her home. ‘Come driving up the parking lot, introducing
her;

Acting
like he thinks that girl is going to be Trenda’s best friend but
that girl sees the sparkle in his eyes is her. She hears the familiar
tones in their voices when two people bond. Mark never retreats and
how come it doesn’t register with Trenda? How come she doesn’t
perceive the tender words they keep; preserved in a flawless gold box
just for them?

On
a cool summer night the front door is open. Trenda and Mark linger on
his mother’s old century couch. The lights are low. The light of
the moon is coming through the screen. They kiss. She takes his kiss
and molds his lips with hers.

Marks
lips are full, firm and blousy, three times bigger than hers. She
loves them big and waiting. He said afterwards, “The next time we
kiss I want have much lip left” and he smiles at her. Trenda
doesn’t think anyone ever kisses him like that. She smiles slowly
too at Mark saying that to her. The kiss tells her who Mark belongs
to.

He
doesn’t depart but she never realizes that fact until the last
hour. She hears he is moving to his mother’s home state.
Desperation began. Every day in her heart and mind, she scrambles for
a plan. It needs to be her doing the chasing. There is a group
outing. Trenda and Mark will pair up for the last time. Like old
times.

She
began thinking, “This is the perfect night. Maybe, this is my
chance.” The night ages and they find themselves on the front
steps. He leans in telling her good bye…for the last time.

Mark
is so sweet and promising but it isn’t enough. Is it possible to
get past the last year? When she ignores his advances after telling
him, “We can still be friends?” She knows he is crushed. So is
it she, not recognizing the haunting of her fears?

Frantically,
she races to the phone the next day to call Ms. Anne, rehearsing
apologies. Begging doesn’t hurt right now. Mark will forgive her
for not knowing the child she is but the young lady she should be.

When
Miss Anne answers the phone, she says, “Mark isn’t here.” She
sounds a bit too delighted. Trenda knows she won’t tell him she
called. Mark is letting go. These are Trenda’s tears from being
released by him. She is going to beg Mark not to go but he won’t
hear her. He did… everything.

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